What does that word do to you? For years it made me mad. Apparently there was something I was meant to be doing; something fulfilling, maybe even fun. It was something God wanted me to do but I just couldn't work it out. I tried one ministry. I tried another. I tried starting my own. But everything was hard. Doors kept closing. It all became a duty. I ended up doing nothing and feeling useless.

God kept asking me just to talk to Him. I wondered what for but with nothing else to do, I started. ...
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Today I am having a bad day. I wrote an article for the paper and my husband read it and said it was no good - after it was published. He normally likes what I write, so I figure it must be bad! Then a friend sent me some other blogs, to encourage me. They were good. Too good. Gritty, poetic, honest. What I thought I was - only better.

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, that God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10

It's moments like th...
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Watching "Australia's Funniest Home Videos" one night there was a clip of a girl about 12 years old being given a birthday present. Without even opening it she began to leap around the room, delighted at the prospect of what it might contain. She was leaping so wildly that she lost her balance and crashed into the wall, bounced off that and nearly knocked herself out on the TV cabinet. I didn't laugh. I thought "serves her right."

Where did THAT come from?

"For the Lord your God will bless you ...
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I am writing this in response to something really important I've just learned. DON'T BE OFFENDED AT GOD!

"To have questions is healthy; to hold God hostage to those questions is not". Bill Johnson (Secrets to Imitating God).

I had been upset with God over something for a very long time. It wasn't a trivial thing and I felt wholly justified in demanding answers from Him about why and what He was doing to make it right. God is very kind to me. He didn't smite me or even tell me to pull my head in...
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